Butter-dish



(No Model.)

S. W. BABBITT.

BUTTER DISH. No. 330,193. 3 Patented Nov. 130, 1333.

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s. WILLIAM- BABBITT, or MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT.

BUTTER-DISH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,193, dated November10, 1885.

Application filed August 12, 1885. Serial No. 174,188. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, S. WM. BABBITT, of

Meriden, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new Improvement in Butter-Dishes; and I do hereby declare thefollowing, when taken in connec tion with accompanying drawings and theletters of reference marked thereon, to be afull, clear, and exactdescription of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of thisspecification, and represent, in Figure 1, a vertical central section;Fig. 2, a perspective View of the reversible plate, a portion of thecylindrical'rim broken away to show the flange upon both sides. theplate; Figs. 3 and 4., modifications.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of butter-disheswhich are usually made from metal, and in which a disk or plate isarranged within the dish, on which the butter may rest, so thatdrippings from the ice placed thereon may fall into the dish below theplate, this plate being commonly called a drainer.

If the plate be made of metal, the cutting of butter on the platedefaces the surface of the plate to a very considerable extent. To avoidthe effect of such defacing, the plate has been made from glass orsimilar vitreous material surrounded by a metal band adapted to set intothe body of the dish, the surrounding ring be ing the same as that ofthe metal plate, and constructed with an annular shoulder upon itsoutside to rest upon a corresponding shoulder in the dish. The glass orvitreous plate is expensive, and is not altogether ornamental, and doesnot have that neat appearance which a metal plate presents if undefaced.

In the use of such dishes for common ordinary family use the defacing ofthe metal plate does not create a serious obj ection; but for spe cialoccasions the defaced appearance of the plate would be objectionable.

The object of my invention is to constructa metal plate which may beadapted to use for general purposes or upon special occasions, and uponsuch special occasion present a fresh surface, in contradistinction t0the surface defaced by general use; and it consists in a metal diskhaving an annular rim around its edge,

projecting alike upon both surfaces, and so that the plate may bereversed in the dish to present either side of the plate upward, as morefully hereinafter described.

A. represents the body of the dish, and B the cover, adapted to setthereon in substantially the usual manner. The'body of the dish isconstructed with a shoulder, a, upon its inside below the upper edge,upon which the plate may rest. 0 is the plate, which consists of a diskof metal constructed with an annular cylindrical rim, D, and so as toform a flange, a, upon one side, and 71 upon the opposite side,of theplate, the two flanges being of substantially the same extent. Thediameter of the rim is such that it may enter the body of the dish andrest upon the shoulder a, as seen in Fig. 1, and there support thebutter which may be placed thereon. Both sides of the plate may befinished alike, or one may be more highly finished than the other.Generally one side is gold-plated and the other silver-plated, to

make a strong distinction between the two.

The plate is introduced one side up, and so used. In such use thesurface will naturally become defaced, and if upon special occasions afresh surface be desirable the plate is reversed, to bring the other andundefaced side to the top, and thus the defacing from general use willbe hidden and a fresh undefaced surface presented. This construction ofplate adds substantially nothing to the cost of the dish, yet thereversibility of the plate gives to it the capacity to be usedsubstantially as two independent dishes.

Instead of making the shoulder upon the inside of the dish for thedrainer to rest upon, the drainer may be constructed, as seen in Fig. 3,with an annular rib, (1, around its edge, to rest upon the upper edge ofthe dish, the rib also serving as a seat for the cover, and when settogether the rib will form an ornamental bead between the cover and thedish; or the plate may set over the outside of the dish, as indicated inFig. 4., and the cover within it, as also shown in that figure, the rimof the plate forming an ornamental band around the dish. I therefore donot wish to be understood as limiting the invention to any particularsupport or arrangement of the plate, further than that it be. made withthe rim around its edge, and extended so as to form a flange upon bothsides of the plate, whereby the plate is made reversible. 5 I claim- Abutter-dish consisting of a body and a cover, combined with a removablereversible metal plate, the said plate constructed with an annularcylindrical rim around its edge, projecting alike on both sides, theplate adapted to to be supported in the dish, substantially asdescribed.

S. WILLIAM BABBITT. Witnesses:

HENRY B. BEACH, CHAS. T. Dom).

